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Sunday October 11, 2009No. 1 Florida Prevails, 13-3, in Baton Rouge

In front
of a record crowd of 93,129 at Tiger Stadium, the No. 1 Florida Gators (5-0,
3-0 SEC) took down the No. 4 LSU Tigers (5-1, 3-1 SEC), 13-3, Saturday,
extending the nationís longest active 15-game win streak on the road. The
Florida win snapped LSUís Saturday night 32-game win streak as the Gators held
the Tigers to just 162 yards total offense in Baton Rouge.

After LSU
was forced to punt on its first drive of the game, Gator sophomore kicker Caleb
Sturgis (St. Augustine, Fla.) put the Florida on the board first on the
Gatorsí first drive of the game, punching in a 28-yard field goal following a
13-play, 82-yard drive that ate 8:11 off the clock and gave UF a 3-0 advantage
in the first quarter.

With 12:08
in the second quarter, a failed fourth-down conversion for the Gators gave LSU
the ball on its own 20-yard line. A series of Florida penalties allowed the
Tigers to advance 77 yards downfield for an 18-yard Josh Jasper field goal,
knotting the score at three-all.

Florida responded with an 80-yard
touchdown drive, the first and only touchdown score of the night, on a 24-yard
connection from Tebow to senior Riley Cooper (Clearwater, Fla.), that brought the Gators ahead, 10-3, with 50 seconds to go in the half. After a
Sturgis kickoff for Florida, junior cornerback Joe Haden (Ft.
Washington, Md.) halted LSUís drive with an interception to take UF into the
locker room ahead and keep Floridaís 17-game streak with an interception alive.

A missed
25-yard UF field goal by Sturgis started off a slow second half of the game for
both the Gator and Tiger squads, but Sturgis put the first, and only, points of
the second half on the board when he connected on a 32-yard field-goal attempt
with 7:27 the fourth quarter that extended the Orange and Blue lead, 13-3.

Sturgis
found the uprights after UF strung together an 11-play, 44-yard drive after
securing two rushing first downs by Tebow and Demps and one first down through
the air on a seven-yard pass from Tebow to Hernandez.

The Gator
defense proceeded to hold the Tigers on fourth-and-one on the first series of
LSUís next possession after a Brandon Spikes (Shelby, N.C.) sack, but a
Tebow interception by LSUís Jai Eugene on the LSU five-yard line put the ball
back in the Tigersí possession.

After
securing four first downs, Spikes struck again for a Jordan Jefferson sack
forcing LSU to turn the ball over on downs, sealing the 13-3 victory in favor
of the Gators in Death Valley, as Spikes finished with a team-leading 11
tackles and 2.5 sacks.

Florida returns home to Gainesville for a
Homecoming weekend match up with the Arkansas Razorbacks Oct. 17 at Ben Hill
Griffin Stadium. For game time and game day information, please visit www.GatorZone.com.